Chores, Open Choir Fire

[COMPLEX POP-PUNK] While Seattle’s Open Choir Fire garners Pixies comparisons on the regular, I’m reminded more of the generation that followed. Jawbox, in particular, as Choir Fire frontman Amo DelBello has a healthy dose of J. Robbins in his vocal chords and songwriting style. The band’s start-stop guitar rock is catchy as hell and a little bit punk, but its tempo and chord changes come at the listener with mathematical precision. Portland’s Chores play a good mix of raucous pop and singer-songwriter fare, with recent disc The Subtle Politics of the Public Hammock dabbling in politics both interpersonal and international. CASEY JARMAN. 10 pm. Kelly's Olympian, 426 SW Washington St., 228-3669. $5. 21+.

Hello!
  In anticipation of this weekend's CD release festivities, we've made our new full length record Dirt Bathed and Quilted available as a FREE download for this week only. Simply visit openchoirfire.com and click the "Download Album for Free" link. Simple as that. No sign-ups, no logins, no nothin'. You're welcome/Thank you. Spread the word.
  We hope to see you all at one or both of our CD Release shows this weekend, where you can do our bottom line a favor and purchase a wonderfully retro-inspired CD of the new record. But wait, THAT'S NOT ALL! With your purchase (for what...ten bucks? is that fair?), you'll receive a FREE copy of the OTHER new record (soon to be released on J-Shirt Records), No Recession, by our jerk-off country band Mississippi Painful. That's a lot of free music. I don't exactly know why we're giving all this shit out for free, considering I can hardly afford to feed my scaredy-cat dog her "with oatmeal for sensitive stomachs" kibble, but oh well, it seems the be the thing.


 Love,

HERE!

We're all ugly on the inside.

We'll be blowing it out (?) one weekend in July as we celebrate the release of our new FULL-LENGTH CD Dirt Bathed and Quilted. Friday July 10th we'll head down south to our former All-American City of residence Tacoma to celebrate with two great bands Bayonet and Elder Mason at the New Frontier. And Saturday we'll give Seattle the full-treatment at the High Dive with Andy Werth and Bad Dream Good Breakfast! And don't forget to tune into KEXP radio or online to catch us on June 13th!
Love you,
Choir

I think I heard Brian say the other night we're shooting for May/June for a release. So QUIT PESTERING ME MOM! Please send money.
Love, Open

Record is recorded, 11 songs tracked in 2 days including geetar overdubs, backing vocals, trumpets, pedal steel, and drum machines.  We're hoping our friend Andy will mix it for free out of the goodness of his heart so we can get it out before the end of the year. 

the tracklist not in album order is:
Big Regret
A Vow of Poverty A Million Generations Couldn't Fix
Righty-O
The Medicine is Leaving My Body
You Should Take the Bus
What is This Wrath Coming From Above
Get In Line
I Stay Real Quiet
It's Love It's Hard
Killing the Messenger
(You Know) It Won't Always Be Like This (Andy)

below you can tell we are not liars...

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=14501835&albumId=2105611

 

 

Hey it seems the trade winds have shifted in favor of our deepest capitalistic desires, we've got some actual actual plans for a new full length. We'll demo some on 7/26 hopefully it won't be quite the disastrous booze fest the last "demo" session ended up being with over 25 minutes of only dogs barking and Brian yelling at the cable for amateur athletes to "Do it!" and "Do it again!"

We've got a basic list of songs that's flowing over the edges of our virtual bucket so we'll have to make some of our best misinformed choices of which one of these doesn't belong, etc. And we've tapped our old friend Andy of the infamous spin agency Big Place Country to engineer and mix the damn thing. It's somewhere's nears around Canadia. Over labor day weekend. That only makes good sense...here...

http://www.binaryrecordingstudio.com/

Questions?

Love you,

Fire (on behalf of Open Choir)

 

 

 

Hmmm.....so what does this mean exactly?  Well, we get a bunch of ads in the CMJ monthly magazine, a song of ours available for download on the CMJ website for a week, and one of our songs distributed along with the CMJ Monthly new music compilation. 

And most importantly of all:  We have a 1 in 6 chance of being invited to play the 2008 CMJ Music Marathon in NYC next October (i.e. we won round 3 of 6). 

We are hopeful.....

failed to post these... Here's some fun stuff...

Missoula Independent 11/15/07

http://www.missoulanews.com/index.cfm?do=article.details&id=40378147-1372-FCBB-83F53BEEE3D3B8E5

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http://www.cutthroatbooks.com/openchoirfire.htm

by New York Annie